Nothing is going well between Dazn and the Professional Football League – the Ligue 1 broadcaster (with BeIN) demanding 573 million euros in damages for ” deception on goods Since the number of subscribers to the British platform is not there. While a potential market of 2.5 million viewers was presented according to the old performances of Canal+ and Amazon, Dazn is now endowed with a base of 500,000 faithful. Lily or prou.
The situation is so critical that the mediator mandated by the Commercial Court of Paris estimates between 200 and 250 million euros the dry loss for Dazn after the first year of operation – despite an investment limited to 325 million euros this season with the League. So the premature disengagement of the Media group is seriously envisaged, this summer.
In such a case, it is already murmuring behind the scenes that Bein Sports could also ask the LFP accounts. “” There are two diffusers of Ligue 1. if one of them is suddenly authorized to terminate or pay less for its rights, the question clearly arises: why would the other diffuser not do the same? », Breathe a relative of the file to the team this Wednesday.
beIN, a commitment to 78.5 million euros per year
In the speech, the Qatar group remains straight in its boots when mentioning such a perspective: ” BeIN Sports has a contract with the LFP, includes its obligations and will honor them as a responsible broadcaster and support for French football as he has been doing for more than a decade. But the Fiasco Mediapp in 2020 demonstrated that Bein could also attack the League in justice to defend its interests.
Like Canal+, while Amazon had arrived at the rescue in Ligue 1 to recover the rights of Mediapro at a very advantageous rate, Bein had wanted to renegotiate his own contract or simply give it up, considering himself injured then in the operation. As a reminder, the Qatarians pay 78.5 million euros per year to broadcast one championship match per day according to the terms of the agreement concluded last summer for the period 2024-2029.
